Vega de Pas 1 locality: Cretaceous, Spain
collected by J. L. Sañudo

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Hybodontoidea indet. Agassiz 1834
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 2 specimens
MGM-11057C, MGM-11058C
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Hybodus parvidens Woodward 1916
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 10 specimens
recombined as Polyacrodus parvidens
Ten almost complete tooth-crowns (MGM-11019C, MGM-11023C, MGM-11024C, MGM-11028C, MGM-11030C, MGM-11031C, MGM- 11035C, MGM-11045C, MGM-11049C, MGM-11052C); four incomplete tooth-crowns with part of root preserved (MGM- 11020C, MGM-11026C, MGM-11033C, MGM-11048C); 16 incomplete tooth-crowns (MGM-11021C, MGM-11022C, MGM-11025C, MGM-11027C, MGM-11029C, MGM- 11032C, MGM-11036C, MGM-11039C, MGM-11043C, MGM-11044C, MGM-11046C, MGM-11047C, MGM- 11050C, MGM-11051C, MGM-11053C, MGM-11055C); and seven isolated main cusps (MGM-11034C, MGM- 11037C, MGM-11038C, MGM-11040C, MGM-11041C, MGM-11042C, MGM-11054C).
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Egertonodus basanus (Egerton 1845)
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 3 specimens
Eight specimens. Two almost complete toothcrowns (MGM-10798C, MGM-11012C); two incomplete 678 D.D. Bermúdez-Rochas /Geobios 42 (2009) 675–686 tooth-crowns (MGM-11013C, MGM-11015C); and three isolated main cusps (MGM-11014C, MGM-11016C, MGM- 11018C).
Planohybodus ensis (Woodward 1916)
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 8 specimens
Three specimens. One almost complete toothcrown (MGM-11011C), one incomplete tooth-crown (MGM- 11009C), and one incomplete isolated cusp (MGM-11010C).
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
Lonchidion breve Patterson 1966
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 1 specimen
One single complete tooth (MGM-10797C).
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 1 specimen
One single incomplete tooth-crown (MGM- 11008C)
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Lissodus sp. Brough 1935
Bermúdez-Rochas 2009 1 specimen
One single complete lateral tooth-crown (MGM- 11007C)
Reptilia - Testudines
Eucryptodira indet. Gaffney 1975
Pérez-García and Murelaga 2014 10 specimens
MGM-10465C to 10474C
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes
Arcodonichthys pasiegae n. gen., n. sp. Poyato-Ariza and Bermúdez-Rochas 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cantabria County:Vega de Pas
Coordinates: 43.1° North, 3.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.2° North, 2.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous
Key time interval:Cretaceous
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vega de Pas Member:Viviparus
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:few
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Collection size:6 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. L. Sañudo
Collection method comments: Repository: Museo GeoMinero, Institute Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain (MGM)
Metadata
Database number:136002
Authorizer:S. Peters, M. Bell, M. Carrano Enterer:S. McMullen, M. Carrano, M. Bell
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-11-14 06:20:03 Last modified:2012-11-13 13:20:03
Access level:the public Released:2012-11-14 06:20:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43502. F. J. Poyato-Ariza and D. D. Bermúdez-Rochas. 2007. New Pycnodont Fish (Arcodonichthys pasiegae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):271-275 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]

Secondary references:

46854 D. D. Bermúdez-Rochas. 2009. New hybodont shark assemblage from the Early Cretaceous of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin. Geobios 42:675-686 [M. Bell/M. Bell]
52411 A. Pérez-García and X. Murelaga. 2014. Tortugas del Cretácico Inferior de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica: el registro Hauteriviense-Barremiense de Vega de Pas (Cantabria) [Turtles from the Lower Cretaceous of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin: the Hauterivian–Barremian record from Vega de Pas (Cantabria)]. Geogaceta 55:79-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]